You may have seen my earlier thread, When a mistake is not a mistake, in which I recount how i turned a too-big routing for an inlay into something that actually looks better.

Well, I made YET AGAIN another mistake on the same project, just as I was finishing it!

DOH! DOUBLE DOH!

It’s an urn, and I was attatching the baseplate when one screw apparently went a bit off center, and sliced thru the outside of the carcass! Disaster:

My first inclination was to route out the bad piece, and swap in a good one. BUT, this is highly figured birdseye maple, so it probably wouldn’t look good.

TRIPLE DOH!

Ah, but inspiration struck!

I would route out a rabbet along the whole bottom edge, and inlay a piece of Paduak – just like I did on my first mistake on the top of the urn! Looking at it, it looks better! The four sides of the urn and the baseplate are all maple – pretty much one big bunch of blond color; the Paduak breaks it up, adding visual interest!

Thanks be to God!

I should be done with it tomorrow – barring anymore mistakes/opportunities – and I’ll post pics!